Objective: To analyze the current status and causes of drug dispensing errors in pharmacy intravenous admixture services (PIVAS)

sort out all work links

formulate corresponding measures of label arrangements and drug dispensing review

so as to reduce drug dispensing error rate and improve drug dispensing quality of PIVAS. Methods: The errors in the medical order labels without classification from Jan. to Dec. 2016 and the errors in the medical order labels with classification from Jan. to Dec. 2017 were compared. Effects of corresponding measures were evaluated by reducing the error rate of drug dispensing before and after improvement. Results: After the implementation of classification of medical order labels

the error rate of drug dispensing dropped from 0.032‰ to 0.004‰

with a decrease of 86.67%. The number of drug dispensing personnel decreased from 8 to 4. Conclusion: Classification of medical order labels not only reduces the work pressure of drug dispensing personnel

effectively reduces the incidence of drug dispensing errors

but ensures the quality of drug dispensing

saves labor costs

and improves the work efficiency of PIVAS